When former drug lord Frank White (Christopher Walken) is paroled from prison, he attempts to reclaim his old turf by wiping out his former competition and distributing the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes. Scored to the alternating strains of Vivaldi and rapper Schooly D, Abel Ferrara's ultraviolent, pitch-black satire from 1990, riffs on both Nosferatu and Robin Hood in its critique of America's failed war on drugs and boasts an all-star lineup of bad guys that includes Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Steve Buscemi, and Giancarlo Esposito.